Nabari City

Name said to come from a horse's grave.

Umazuka Kofun, Mihata tombs

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Natsumi Haiji site

The restored main hall has a wallof 709 clay Buddhas.

Natsumi Haiji was an ancient temple on a slope above the right bank of the Nabari River, estimated to have been built between the late 7th and early 8th centuries. The wall in the restored main hall, based on excavated pieces, combines 709 clay Buddha plaques of five types into a gold wall 2.8 m high and 2.1 m wide. The edge of an altar plaque carries an inscription of a cyclical year, estimated to be 694.

National historic site, 1990
Wall of 709 plaques
Inscribed year: estimated 694

02 ／ Hinawa match cord

A cord twisted from green bamboo skinis said to burn for an hour at 10 cm.

In Kamiobata, green bamboo is shaved with a hatchet, the skin is twisted into cord, joined into long lengths and dried to make hinawa, slow-burning match cord. A prefectural report says match cord made only from green bamboo is found only in Kamiobata. A document is said to survive recording a 1670 order from the Todo family for 100 guns' worth of cord, and in 2019 the craft became a city-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

Prefectural traditional craft
City Intangible Folk Cultural Property, 2019
1670 order for 100 guns' worth

03 ／ Nabari Todo residence site

A mid-Edo plan shows roomscovering 1,083 tatami mats, it is said.

A branch of the Todo family of Tsu Domain lived in Nabari for 11 generations, from 1636 until the Meiji Restoration. What remains is part of the lodge rebuilt after the great Nabari fire of 1710. The prefecture records that a mid-Edo plan shows a site of about 188 ares.

Prefectural historic site, 1953
11 generations
Site of about 188 ares

Living here

51 minutes from Osaka Namba by Kintetsu limited express.

about 80,000 people
60 min to a city centre

On the Kintetsu Osaka Line, the limited express takes 51 minutes at the fastest from Osaka Namba to Nabari Station, and 84 minutes from Kintetsu Nagoya (timetable). The city describes itself as lying in western Mie Prefecture where the Kinki and Chubu regions meet, long a key point and post town on the east-west route. Housing development from the 1960s onward made it a bedroom town for the Kansai area.

People living here: 76,387people
Area: 129.77km²
Households: 31,466households
Rent (average for rentals): 51,582yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 67 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —15 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

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Where you can go from here.

Nabari City in Japan34.628°N 136.108°E

to OsakaKintetsu limited express51min
to NagoyaKintetsu limited express84min

Travel times follow 近畿日本鉄道『駅の時刻表』（eki.kintetsu.co.jp。ページに「2026年3月14日現在」）の名張駅（近鉄大阪線）の発車時刻表〈平日・土休日〉と、各特急の停車駅発着表（T7）で名張『発』→終点側の駅『着』を数えた（名張発→大阪上本町・大阪難波・近鉄名古屋・京都）。名張へ着く向き（町の外→名張）は、近鉄『ダイヤ案内』の経路検索（eki.kintetsu.co.jp/norikae/N2）を 2026-10-14（水）と 2026-10-18（日）の05:00〜22:30、30分おきの出発時刻で引き、『乗り換え回数0回』の経路の最短を数えた。 (checked 2026-10-13). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Nabari City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

15.8km

Mie Prefecture: 伊賀市, 津市
Nara Prefecture: 山添村, 宇陀市, 曽爾村

Nabari City isthis kind of town.

01The Mihata Kofun Group, a national historic site, includes five keyhole-shaped tombs such as the 142 m Umazuka; the tourism association relays a folk tale of a horse, a lady and her retainers buried there as the source of the names
02The city says Kan'ami first founded a sarugaku troupe in Obata, and Kamiobata has a monument marking the site and a park with a noh stage; the Kan'ami Festival is held on the first Sunday of November each year
03The Akame Gorge, which includes the Akame 48 Falls, is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty, and in Ichinoi, Akame, a ritual of preparing torches for Todaiji's Nigatsu-do and presenting them has been handed down

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Nabari City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗